Unable to boot skeleton of v0.03

Ronny Nilsson rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org
Sun Sep 6 11:46:55 CEST 2015


Hi
I'm glad you got it to work. In the website help section there is a note about 
Fedora where you might want to look. CentOS probably has lots in common with 
Fedora so try installing the same packages.

/Ronny


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> Hi Ronny,
>
> All those files were present. The images looked correct. I finally got it
> to work, after starting over and going through the process from scratch. It
> turns out that I forgot to install the perl-Env package, but the build
> process didn't complain.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Ronny Nilsson <
>
> rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Hi Peter and welcome to the list.
> >
> > Can you check that these two files has been generated:
> > nard/intermediate/boot/initramfs.cpio.gz
> > nard/intermediate/fs/init
> >
> > I guess you have a serial console hooked up? Can you post the boot log?
> >
> > /Ronny
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > I'm trying to prototype something on a Pi B+.
> > >
> > > I downloaded and built the skeleton image on a CentOS 7 workstation.
> > > The generated image boots but the kernel panics because it can't run
> > > /init
> >
> > (no
> >
> > > other useful information).
> > >
> > > Everything I've checked so far looks sane. Cross-compilation worked out
> >
> > of
> >
> > > the box. All the binaries are ARM 32bit LSB. Like I said, the kernel
> >
> > boots.
> >
> > > It's the handoff to the /init script that fails. I tried the pre-built
> > > image of this version and it boots fine. I've looked at both images and
> > > I do see different checksums and sizes for both ram disks, so they're
> > > obviously not identical.
> > >
> > > I'm at a loss as to why this isn't working and I'd like to get
> > > somewhere with it because I like the simplicity of this better than
> > > piCore. Any pointers greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > Peter





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